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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
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Kesswil TG
C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
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Carl Gustav Jung
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